# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-lee-kiessling
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:18:04.405Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-lee-kiessling"
name: "Laura Lee Kiessling"
slug: "laura-lee-kiessling"
description: "Laura Lee Kiessling is an American chemist and the Novartis Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kiessling's research focuses on elucidating and exploiting interactions on the cell surface, especially those mediated by proteins binding to carbohydrates. Multivalent protein-carbohydrate interactions play roles in cell-cell recognition and signal transduction. Understanding and manipulating these interactions provides tools to study biological processes and design therapeutic treatments. Kiessling's interdisciplinary research combines organic synthesis, polymer chemistry, structural biology, and molecular and cell biology."
tagline: "American chemist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1960-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.33
  momentum:             15.89068825910931
  historical:           5.476350666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Laura L. Kiessling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "لورا لى كيسلينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لورا کیسهلینق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Кисслинг, Лора"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_L._Kiessling"
    title: "Laura L. Kiessling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_L._Kiessling"
    title: "Laura L. Kiessling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56183"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump